thrilled - Story 150097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of sleeping in her own room again made her giddy. She pulled into the driveway, the engine of her old car sputtering to a stop. She stepped out, stretching, and letting out a soft sigh. It felt good to be back. She felt like doing a little dance.

Her parents were already at the door, waving. Her mother's smile was genuine. She knew she'd made the right decision.

She ran towards them, her arms open. She was ready for this.

Emotion: thrilled

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.31 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion thrilled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 thrilled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the thrilled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the thrilled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.613
`!`	0.544
`B`	0.508
`🤩`	0.499
`🎉`	0.457

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.601
`😞`	-0.536
`ness`	-0.462
`😥`	-0.351
`😔`	-0.341